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iREV. DR. TA1MAGE,
SUNDAY'S 1MSCOURSE BY TH:
NOTED DIVINE.
IauDjeci; " rne Place to Besln." ;
Text: "Beginning at Jerusalem."?Lul
Xiiv., 47.
"There it is," said the driver, and we n
instantly and excitedly rose in the carriaf
to catch the flrst glimpse of Jerusalem, j
long the joy of the whole earth. That cit
coroneted with temples and palaces an
radiant, whether looked up at from tne va
, ley of Jehoshaphat or gazed at from adjoli
i ing hills, was the capital of a great Natioi
Clouds of Incense had hovered over it. Cha
lots of kings had rolled through it. Batte
ing rams of enemies had thundered ag.iln;
it. There Isaiah prophesied, and Jeramia
lamented, and David reipned, and Pa'
preached, and Christ was martyred. Mo:
Interesting city ever built since masoni
rung its flrst trowel or plumb line measure
Its first wall or royalty swung its fir;
r-ficepter. What Jerusalem was to the Jewis
' kingdom Washington is to our own countr
?the capital, the place to which all tb
Itribe3 coma up. the great National heai
whose throb sends life or death through th
body politic, clear out to the geographic;
extremities.
What the resurrected Christ said in m
textto His disciples when Ho ordered themt
start on the work ot gosplization, "begit
ning at Jerusalem." it seems to me God saj
now in His providence to tens o! thousand
of Christians in this city. Start for th
evangelization of America, "beginning a
Washington." America is going to be take
for God. If you do not believe it, take you
hat now and leave and give room to som
man or woman who does believe it. A
surely as God lives and He is able to do as H
says He will this country will be evangelizec
from the mouth of the Potomac to thi
mouth of the Oregon, from the Highlands o
Navesink to the Golden Horn, from Baffin'.
|?ay to toe truu 01 inexico, auu ^mist ?n
walk every lake, whether bestormed o:
placid, an'l be transfigured on every mono
tain, and the night skies, whether they hove:
over groves of magnolia or over Alaskai
glaoier, shall be filled with the angelic over
tare of "glory to God and good will l<
men."'
Again and agair does (he old book an
nouncethat all the earth shall see the salva^
tioc of God, and as the greater includes tht
lesser that takes America gloriously in. Car
you not see that if America is not taken foi
God by His consecrated people it will be
taken for Apollyon? The forces engaged oc
both sides are so tremendous that it cannol
be a drawn battle. It is comiog, the Arma
geddon. Either the American Sabbath will
perish and this Nation be handed over tc
Herods and Hildnbrands and Diocletian;
and Neros of baleful power, and Alcoholism
will reign, seated upon piled up throna o
beer barrels, hifi mouth foaming with do
mestic and National curse, and crime wili
lift its unhindered knife of assassinatior
and rattle keys of worst burglary and wav<
torch of widest conflagration, and oui
cities be turned into Sodoms, waiting foi
mighty tempest of fire and brimstone
and one tidal wave of abominatior
Iwiu surge across tne connaeac, or oui
Sabbaths will take on more sancti
ty, and the !newspapers will become apocal
yptio wings of benediction, and penitentiarie;
will be abandoned for lack of occupants, anc
holiness and happiness, twin son and daugh
ter of heaven, shall walk through the lane
and Christ reign oyer this Nation either ir
person or by agency so glorious that the
whole country will be one clear, resounding
echo of heaven. It will be one or the othor
By the throne of Him who liveth forever and
ever I declare it will be the latter. If the
Lord will help me, as He always doesblessed
be Hie glorious name?I will show
you how a mighty work of grace begun a)
Washington would have a tendency to bring
the whole continent to God. and before this
century closes.
Why should it "be especially advantageous
If a mighty work of grace started here, ''beginning
at Washington?" First, because this
city is on the border between the North and
the South. It is neither Northern nor Southern.
It commingles the two climates. It
brings together the two styles of population.
It is not only right, but beautiful that people
should have especial love for the latitude
where they were born and brougnt up. With
What loving accentuation the Ala'oamian
speaks of his orange groves! And the man
from Massachusetts is sure to let you know
that he comes from the land of the Adamses
Samuel and John and John Quincy. Did
you ever know a Virginian ^r Ohioan whose
race did not brighten when he announced
plmself from the Southern or Northern
Btate of Presidents? If a man does not like
pis native clime, it is because while he lived
there ho did not behave well. This capital
ptands where, by its locality and its political
influence, it stretches forth one hand toward
the North and the other toward the South,
tnd a mighty work of grace starting neru
pould probably bo a National awakening,
fcteorgia would clasp the hand of New Hampshire,
and Maine the hand of Louisiana, and
California the hand of New York, and say,
' Come, let us go up and worship the God
of Nations, the Christ of Golgotha, the Holy
Ghost of the Pentecostal thousands." It has
often been said that the only way the
North and the South will be brought into
complete aocord is to have a war with
some foreign Nation in which both seotions,
marching side by side, would forget everything
but the foe to be overcome. Well, if
you wait for such a foreign conflict, you
will wait until all this generation is dead
and perhaps wait forever. The war that
will make the sections forget past controversies
is a war against unrighteousness,
such as a universal religious awakening
would declare. What we want is a battle
lor souls in which about 40,000,000 Northerners
and Southerners shall be on the same
aide and shoulder to shoulder. In no othei
city on the continent can such a war bo declared
so appropriately, for all the othei
great cities are either Northern or Southern.
Thisis neither, or rather it is both.
Again, it would be especially advantageous
if a mighty work of grace started here. be>
cause more representative men are in Washingtonthanin
any other city between the
oceans. Of course there are accidents In
politics, and occasionally there are men whe
get into the Senate and House of Representatives
and otlmr important places who art
Inttea lor rne positions in ueuner aeaa noi
heart, but this is exceptional and more exceptional
now than in other dnvg. There is
not a drunkard In the National Legislature
although there were timps when Kentucky
Virginia, Delaware, Illinois. New York aiic
Massachusetts had men in the Senate 01
House of Representatives who were maudlir
and staggering drunk across those higi
places. Never nobler group of Diet, sat ir
Senate or House of Representatives than sa
.there yesterday and will sit there to-morrow
while the highest judiciary, without ex
caption, has now upon its bench men be
yond criticism for good morals and m^uta
endowment. So in all departments of offl
oial position, with here and there an excep
tion, are to-day the brainiest men and mo3
honorable men of America. Now, suppoat
the Holy Ghost power should fall upon'thi:
city, and these men from all parts of Amer
ica should suddenly beoome pronounced fo
Christ. Do you say the effect would be elec
trical? More than that. It would be om
nlpotent. Do you say that such learned am
potent men are not wrought upon by relig
lous influence? That shows you have no
I observed what has been going on.
Commodore Foote. representing the navy
General Grant and Robert E. Lee, represent
lng the Northern and Southern armies: Chie
Justice Chase, representing the Suprem
Court; the Frelinghuysens, Theodore am
Frederick, representing the United State
Senate; William Pennington and scores c
others, representing the House of Represent
atives, have surrendered to that gospel
which before this winter Is on: will in thi
capital of the American Nation, if we ar
faithful in our prayers and exertions tun
into the kiusdom oT Gcd rrse'i ol' Nation;
and international power. ih?*k* tongues <
eloquence becoming the tongues of lire i
another Pentecost. Then; are on yondt
hill those who by the grace ot God will b*
come John Ktioxes and Chrysostoni
and Fenolons ami Bourdei^aus. who
once regenerated. There is a
illusion I have heardin prayt
I meetings and beard in pulpits, tbut
soul is ft soul?one soul worth as much .*
another. I deny it. The soul of a man w'u
can bring 1000 or 10,000 other souls into tli
kingdom of God is worth 100.1 times <
10,000 times more than the soul of a ma
who can bring no one into the kingdom,
great outpouring of the Holy Spirit in th
oapital. reaohing the chief nien'of Amarici
,would be of more value to earth and heave
than in any other part of the Nation becalm
it would reach all the States. oitle3. towr
and neighborhoods of the continent. 01
for the outstretched right arn of God AI?
mighty in the 3tlvation of this capital!
Some of us remember 1857, when at the
, close of the worst monetary distress this
country has ever felt, compared with whioh
the hard times of the last three years were
a boom of prosperity, right on the heels of
m that complete prostration came an awakenIng
In which 500,000 people were converted
in different States of the Union. Do you
know where one of its chief powers was
ce demonstrated? In Washington. Do vou
know on what street? Thi9 street. Do you
,11 know in what church? This church. I
*e picked up an old book a few days ago and
10 was startled and thrilled ond enchanted to
y, read some words, written at that time by the
id Washington correspondent of a Now York
1- paper. He wrote: "The First Presbyterian
a- Church can scarce contain the Deople. Reb.
quests are daily preferred for an Interest in
r. the prayers offered, and the reading of these
r- forms one of thetenderest and most effective
st features of the meetings. Particular pain? I
,h are taken to disclaim and exclude every- j
11 thing like sectarian foeling. General aston- i
st ishment is felt at the unexpected rapiditj
y with which the work has thus far proceeded,
(1 and we are beginning to anticipate the nest
cessity of opening smother church." Why,
h my hearers, not hare that again, and more
y than that? There are many thousands more
te of inhabitants now than then. Besides that,
:t since then are the telephone, with Its semie
omnipresence, and the swift cable car for asil
sembling the people. I believe that the
mightiest revival of religion that this city
y has ever seen is yet to come, and the earth
o will tremble from Capitoline Hill to the
i- boundaries on all sides vith the footsteps of
pg God hs He comes to awaken and pardon and
Is save these great populations.
e People of Washington, meet us next Thurst
day night, at half past 7 o'clock, to pray for
n this coming ot tuo nuij vuusi?uui mi a
r pentecostal 3090 tbat I have referred to. but
e 30,000. Such a fire as that would kindle a
$ light that would be seen from the sledges
e crunching through the snows of Labrador to
I the Caribbean Sea, whero the whirlwinds are
a born. Let our cry be that of Habakkuk, the
{ blank verse poet of the Bible, "O Lord, reg
vive Thy work in the midst of the years, in
I the midst of the years make known; in wrat h
r remember mnrcy." Let the battlecry be
. Washington for God, the United States for
r God. America for God, the world for Godf
i We are all tired of skirmishing. Let us
. bring on a general engagement. We are
> tirad of Ashing with hook and line.
With one sweep of the gospel net let us
. take in many thousands. This vast work
. must begin somewhere. Why not here?
. Some one must give the rallying cry, why
! may not I, one of tbe Lord's servants? By
Providential arrangement, I am every week
i in sermonic communication with every city.
town and neighborhood of this country, and
I now Rive the watchword to north and
south and east and west. Hear and see it,
all people?this call to a forward movement,
this call to repentence and faith, this call to
a continental awakening!
This generation will soon be out of sight.
Where are the mighty men of the past who
trod your Pennsylvania avenue and spake
in yonder National Legislature and decided
the stupendous questions of the supreme judicatory?
A.sk the sleepers in the Congressional
cemetery. Ask the mausoleums all
over the land. Their tongues are speechless,
their eyes closed, their arms folded,
their opportunities gone, their destiny fixed.
How soon timo prorogues parliaments and
adjourns senates and disbands cabinets and
empties pulpits and dismisses generations!
What we would do we must do quickly
or not do at all. I call upon people who
cannot come forth from their sickbeds to implore
the heavens in our behalf from their
midnight pillows, and I call upon the aged
who cannot, even by the help of their staff,
enter the churches to spend their last days
on earth in supplicating the salvation of this
Nation, and I call upon all men and women
who have been in furnaces of trouble, as
was. Shadrach, and among lions, as was
Daniel, and in dungeons of trouble, as was
Jeremiah, to join in the prayer, and let
the church of God everywhere lay hold
of the Almighty arm that moves Nations.
Then Senators of the United
i States will announce to the State legislatures
that wilt thom here, and members of the
i House or Representatives will report to the
Congressional districts that elected them,
and the many thousands of men and women
; now and here engaged in the many departments
of National service will write home,
. telling all sections of the country that the
) Lord is here and that He is on the march $3r
t the redemption of America. Halleluiah, the
i Lord is coming. I hear the rumbling of His
t chariot wheels. I feel on my cheeks the
breath of the white horses that draw the
t Victor! I see the flash of His lanterns
| through the long night of the world's sin
i and sorrow.
[ We want it this country, only on a larger
scale, that which other centuries have seen
of God's workings, as in the reformation of
the sixteenth century, when Martin Luther
and Philip Melanchthon led on; as in the
, awakening of the seventeenth century, when
Bunyan and Flavel and Baxter led on; as in
tho awakening of the eighteenth century,
i when Tennant and Edwards and the Wesieys
led on; as in the awakening of 1857, led on
by Matthew Simpson, the seraphic Methodist,
and Bishop Macllvaine. the apostolic Episcopalian,
and Albert Barnes, the consecrated
[ Presbyterian, and others just as good in all j
denominations. Oh. will not some of '
i those glorious soub of the past come
down and help us? Come down ofT your
i thrones. Nettleton and Finney and Daniel '
Baker and Edward Pavson and Truman Osborne
and Earle and Knapp and Inskip and !
. Archibald Alexander?that Alexander the 1
' Great of the Christian churches. Come J
, down! How can you rest up there when the 1
world is dying for lack of the gospel? Come j
: down and agoniro with us in prayer. Come ;
. down and help ns preach in our pulpits. '
Coma down and inspire our courage ana
faith. Heaven can get along without you
i better than we can. Eut more than all, and
ovcrwh"lraed with reverent emotion, we ask
> it. come. Thou of the deeply dyed garmnnts j
of Bozrah; traveling in the greatness of Thy
. strength, mighty to save! Lord God of j
Joshua, let the sun of this centurv stand ;
, 3till above Glbeon and the moon above the j
valley of Ajalon until we can whip out the '
i five tings of hell, tumbling them down the j
. precipices as the other five fcin^s went over
. the rocks to Bothhoron. Ha! Ha! It will }
> so surely be done that I cannot restrain the
laugh of triumph. '
> And now I would like to soo this hour (hat
. which I have never seen, Init hope to see? *
> a whole audience saved under one Hash of (
; the Eternal Spirit. Before you go outof any 1
. of these Ooors cuter t'uo door of i
, mercy. Father auJ mothar, co:ce in and 1
, bring your children with von. Newly mar- <
ried folks, consecrate yom lifetime to God, 4
i and bs married for eternity as well as time. '
r Youns man. you will waut God baforo you ?
i get through this wor! 1, aui you want Him 1
i now. Young woman, wilhout Goil this is a (
i hard world forwomou. One aiid all, wher- '
t ever you sit orstand. I lift my voice so that J
t you can hear it, out in the corridors and on '
. the street, and say, in the words of the Med.
tterrauean ship captain. "Call upon thy God,
I if so be that God will think upon us, that we
. Derlshnot." Ob. what nows to tell, what
. news to relate to your old father aud motht
er. what new3 to telegraph your friends on
the other side of the mountains, what news
with which to thrill your loved ones in
heaven! It was of such news that a man
read in a noonday meeting in Philadelphia,
arose, and unrolling a manusorlpt read:
r Where er we meet, you always say:
"What's thH newhV What's the news?
" Pray what's the order of the day?
1 What's the news? What's the nows?"
Oli, I have cot good news to tell?
" My Saviour hath done a'.l things well,
I And triumphed over death and bell?
r That's the news! That's the news!
e
1 The Lamb w;is slain on Calvary?
s ThatV the news! That's the news!
if To set a world of sinners free?
Tbat's the news! That's the news!
' The Lord has pardoned all my sin?
That's the nows! That'sthe news!
I feel the witness now within ?
( Tiiat's thi'isew! That's the news!
1.1 And siu Kiitouli my sins away.
* | And tuu^ht m-< how to watch aud prav,
I I'm hatrpy now from day 10 day?
| Thai's th*.j news! Thai's the news'.
- l
is | And Christ the Lord can save you, too?
n That's the news! That's the news!
it l'our sinful heart He can renew?
;r That's the news! That's the news!
a This moment, if for sins you grieve,
is This moment, if you do believe,
o A full acqulltal you'll receive?
ie j That's the news! That's the newst
>r ...
,n And now, if any one should say,
A "What's the news? What's the new3?"
Is Oh, tell Him you you've begun to pray? '
i, That's the news! rhai's the news! ,
in That you have joined the conquering band,
ie And now with Joy at God's command
19 You're marching to the better land?
i, TUut'a tta uews! That's the aewat
SABBATH SCHOOI.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON F
MARCH 1.
Lesson Test: "Jesus the Messlal
Luke ix., 18-27?Gulden
Text: Lukeix.?35?
Commentary.
13. "Ami it came to pass as Ho was al
praying Hi* disciples were with Him. and
asked "them, saying, Whom say the pec
that I am?" It "is probable that between
last Uvson and this we are to think of
folding of both the 5000 end the 4000,
wnikiiig on the sea and His visit to the c<
of Tyre and Stdon, and now He is away nc
near Caisarea Philippi, or Dan. He had b
hearing from home and sending word thit
?in other words, He had been praying?i
then He asks this question, not that He ca
what people thought of Him or whom t
thought He was, but He was leading on 1
eoufession from His disciples for a purp<
If we tolerate a care as to what people th
or say of us or have an ambition to hav
uume among men, we have not the spiri
Him who emptied Himself for us and m
Himself of no reputation, coming here "
to be ministered unto, but to minister am
give His life a ransom for many." The a
sage of Jeremiah to Baruch is always fltti
"Seekest thou greit things for thyself, 9
them not" (Phil, ii., 7, 8; Math. xx., 28; J
xlv.. 5).
19. "Thev answering said, John tho B
list, but some say Elias, and others say t
one of the old prophets is risen ajrai
Compare verses 7 and 8. To know Go<
the greatest thing, but we cannot know C
apart from Jesu3 Christ (Math, xi., 27), i
when we think we know Him we mav v
apply this word to ourselves, "If any n
thinketh that he knoweth anything,
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to kno
(I Cor. viii., 2). At best we know but in p
uow; not till then shall we know as we
known (I Cor. xiii., 9.12). The natural n
cannot know the things of God at all (I C
li.,14), but even the spiritual man is <
times so carnal that ho cannot discern spi
ual things.
20. "He said unto them, But whom i
ye that I am? Peter, answering, said, 1
Christ of God." or as in Math, xvi., 16; J(
vi, U9, "The Christ, the Son of the liv
God." r Matthew says that Jesus replied
this, ''Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona,
flesh and blood hath not revealed it u
thee, but Mv Father which is in Heave
It it surely blessed to be taught of God
"Who teacheth like Him?" (Job xxxvi., !
Before Jesus loft His disciples He said t
the spirit whom He would send would te<
them all things and guide them into
truth (Johnxiv., 26: xvi., 18).
21. "And He straltly charged them, i
commanded them to tell no man that thin
In Math, xvi., 20, It is written that Ho s
that they were to tell no man that He 1
Jesus the Christ. In the beginning of
ministry He said very plainly to the won
of Samaria that Ho was the Christ (John
25, 26), but now that they have rejec
Him, the next sign that He is the Christ1
be His resurrection from the dead. We '
never know till it is too late how much
have lost by not simply believing His wc
We thus grieved the spirit and hinder 1
from telling us what He would like to.
on the other hand, we are tilled with
spirit, we shall hear His voice and ki
when to be still and when to speak.
22. "Saying, The Son of Man must su
many things, and be rejected of the elt
and chief priests and scribes and be sh
and be raised the third day." There is <
dently some connection between this i
His forbidding them to 3ay that He was
Christ. On several different occasions
told them as plainly as this that He must
and rise again the third day, but they
ceived it not. They did not believe that
meant just what He said, and they could
put any other meaning upon His wei
therefore they lost it all.
23. "And He said to them all, If any n
will come after Me, let htm deny himself i
take up his cross daily and follow Me." '
true Christian life is the Christ life, the
of .Tesus m:ide manifest in our mortal fl
(II Cor. iv., 10. 11), and this means the
ing unto self, alway, the constant reckon
dead of tht self life, the old man, tho cat
mind which must be put off and kept o
not put off and on as we would our clott
Christ never lived unto Himself in any w
either as to His will or His glory or
pleasure (John vi., 38; vii., 60; Rom. xv.,
To take up the cross is cot to wear sc
kind of a pretty cross, for there is no si
thing as a pretty cross recognized in 8cj
ture, but it is just to die constantly to oi
own will and way and pleasure. ''Not I,
Christ."
24. "For whosoever will save his life si
lose it, but whosoever will lose his life
My sake, tho same shall save it."
Our lire may be said to be tbat which ta
up our attention, which chiefly occupies i
minds and our time, that which interests
most. We have to engage in many t
varied forms of business, but even in thes
may be our main thought to glorify G
and thus God and not business will be i
life. We shall be able to say, "For mo
live is Christ."
25. "For what is a man advantaged if
craln tho whole world and lo3e himself or
?ast away?" Let a man live for his busin<
r>r his home, or for pleasure, or for hlm?
In any wc,y and not receive Christ, and
and all his life will be truly lost, for he t
hath not i:he Son of God bath not life. rJ
word "castaway"' in this verse is wholly i
ferentfrom that in I Cor. Ix.t There"it
(ers to service rejected (see R. V.), but h
evidently to the loss of the soul.
26. "For whosoever shall be ashamed
Me and My words of him shall tho Son
Man be ashamed when He shall come in
awn glory and in His Father's, and of
hnlvjincrals." Tho cue who nrofers his o
life to the daily dying to self certainly f
tors self to Christ and may be said to
ishamed of Christ. Such can have no p
In His kingdom. His coming in glory h
referred to is His coming with His saints
Thess. iii., 13; Col. iii., 4), they having p
Piously met Him on His way (I These. I
16-18) and received their jrewards and pc
:ions In His kingdom. t
27. "But I tell you of a truth there
some standing here which shall not taste
ieath till they see the kingdom of God."
ismuch as in Matthew, Mark and Luke t
statement is immediately followed ,by i
record of the transfiguration, that event x
loubtlefis the fulfilling of this stateme
re3us with Moses and Elijah suggest the S
>f Man gloriflod, associated with all 1
saints both risen and translated, and i
ipostles suggest Israel in the flesh all rig
h>U3. Such will be the centre of the mill
lial kingdom, at the close of which sal
.rill be loosed and then completely ov
htjwn.?Lesson Helper.
SAVED BY THE DRUMMER BO^
Little Ofile's Drum Tap* Stopped ? Vf
in a School.
Offle Downs, the fourteen-year-old dr
mer boy in the Dodge street school
Omaha. \eb.. calmed a Are panic among
children recently, and perhaps saved m
lives. It was his duty twice a day to st
at the bottom of the stairs and march
soholars out to the step of any army ra(
This was called the Are drill, and the pu
from the infant class up were tSld they n
never hesitate when the drum sounded.
There was great consternation when
gong sounded the tire alarm. Offle Do
alone, apparently, of all the pupils kept
head. He rapidly passed up the aisles, w
down two flights of stairs on the run, got
drum and. though the smoke was so d?
that he could hardly see his way, took p
tiou at the bottom of the stairs just as
5ti0 pupils appeared in a herd at the top.
The first tap of the drum acted I
magic. Superintendent Alleu pulled tt
little Rirls and a boy from uuder the fefl
tho rushing children an?t commanded tl
to keep step to the music. Tlx- little o
then remembered their les^ou, and to
music calmly name down thu loni; flight
they hatJ done a thousand times before,
a minute every child was out of the bu
ing. Youns; Downs is the hero of the he
The lire started from an overhead furu
I ? htr
D 'i-d'J ft.. 11 WU3UJ qahuqUiouuu *jj
department.
Cincinnati Has u New Flap.
A committee 01 artists appointsi by Mai
Caldwell, selected a design for a tnuuici]
flag for Cincinnati. Ohio. The flag is to
pure white, while the ground or fouudati
of the design Is to be red, with waving stri
of blue running through it. In the centei
the design is the seal of Cincinnati, while
the top is a bunch of buckeye leaves, sj
bollc of Ohio, The successful corapdlto;
Emil Rothengatter, fifty years old, who i
born in Oar many.
- RELIGIOUS READING
OR "the lord chasteneth whom he loveth.
There are s6me of us old-fashioned Chri<
tians who still believe that a loving Go
creates dark nights as well as bright noon
days ; that He not only permits trouble, bu
sometimes sends troubles on His own chil
dren for their spiritual profit. As many a
He loves, He sometimes corrects an
chasten*. And a trulv illial faith reeos
nizes that all hi* dealings are perfect!
right. "Happy is the man whom God cot
one reeteth: therefore despite not thou th
He chastenings of the Almighty." I have see:
>ple a farmer drive his plowshare through a vol
the vet greensward, and it looked like a harsh
the cruel process; but the farmer's eye foresaw
His the springing blades of wheat, and tho
)ast within a few months that torn soil woul
>rth laugh with a golden harvest. Deep sou
een ploughing? bring rich fruits of the Spirit
her The day is God's and the night also. Thi
and is as true in the realm of grace as in th
red realm of nature. God orders the withdrawa
hey of the sun at evening time, yet that ver
O a withdrawal reveals new glories in tho mid
3se. night sky. Then, how the creation widen
ink to our view. The stars that lay concealei
0 a behind the noontide rays rush out and fll
t of the spangled canopy. So in the night sea
ado sons which often descend upon the Chris
not tian, fresh glories of the divine love are re
1 to vealed. fresh power is given to our faith
fresh victories are won. and a new develop
n?i ment is made of Godly character
eek Bethany had to become a dark town to tw<
poor women before Jesus could flood it witl
joy. Before Gethsenmne's midnight strug
aP" gle Christ Himself chanted a hymn; an<
hat happy is the man or woman who can go into
b*," life's hard battle singing ! The ear of Got
i is hears no sublimer music than a Christian'
tod songs in the night.?Theodore L. Cuyler
D. D.
rell
X SEW STATE OF OCBS.
lW" It is quite common to mistake our own in
iart capacity for God's unwillingness to give
are We cannot take more than our hearts am
ian lives can hold, not even of the free am
;or abundant grace of God. The limit of bless
ing for ever}- man is the limit of capacity
rit_ Even God does not put more than a pin
infrt a t.int mm Tlmrufnro ftnri's rienes
my blessing of enlargement. When a soul sub
mits to Him he onuses it to grow, s<
,bn making room for more delight and large
ing power of use in every blessing. God'
to will to give may always be taken for
for granted. Our will to receive is not so sure
nto And when we are disposed to complain o
n." our small share of spiritual blessing, may i
for not be best to ask ourselves whether it ii
22.) not our will that fails and our littlenes:
hat which cannot And roofh to receive ? God'i
ach apparent grudging, we may be sure, is al
all ways a sign of our incapacity. What w?
most need, therefore, is a continual enlarge
ind ment of soul which comes to men only fron
g." the continual presence of God's Spirit. Go(
aid Joes not offer gifts at random, much led!
does Ho enlarge a soul which has no desiri
His for Him. He who thinks that spiritua
nan '"apacity may be picked up anywhere alonf
iv., life's dusty road, and that one may set hi;
ted heart upon the earth and then enjoy th<
trill full measure of a disciple's happiness be
(rill sides, will surely-be disappointed. HoweTe
We wo may persuade ourselves to the contrary
ird, the spiritual ambitions of the opening yea
lim will be the measure of its growth and its de
If, light.
the
low ood's way of TBA.ininq.
We have seen God's way of training th<
rrer ^vorld by a religious process; he also train.1
lers the world by a providential process, ant
"O, neither is that way ours. We ask for strengtl
3V'~ and he sends us weakness; we Ask foi
health?for health to be able to do our worl
the ?ami He sends us sickness ; we set ou;
heart on some dear thing- that we want t<
d10 do. on some dear life that we want to keep
??~ and he takes it away. Iu many a home t
Ho oloud is gathering, aud a fear, a horribli
?ot fear, is coming. aud a strong and earnes
rds? cry is going up and saying: 0 my God. d<
not take him away, Jet him live, let him liv<
3a& before Thee and me! And God does no
seem to hear or seem to heed that cry. Oh
no, it cannot be that, it cannot be that; tha
indeed would be too hard to bear. I believi
"sl1 it to be this, on every hand I learn it. fron
every side I see it; we have one way, Got
lnP has another wuy, and God's way is not ours
IB211 In a way of His own He is training us anc
leading us on and on to something bettei
and more than we could find lor ourselves
Though He defeats our purposes. He doej
not deieat us; and all our hopes and dreams
and all the bright ideals toward which w<
)m0 now aspire, will be afrlast in His wav. nm
not in ours, fullllled.? David H. Greer,D.D.
rtP" in "From Things to God."
les
but :
shadowy lines.
In the nice work of the engraver there an
r some lines so fine and shudowy that he eai
make them only by the aid of magnifying
ce3 glasses ; yet they are the very shadings whiel
aur give perfect beauty to the finished work
^ So the characier of every man is filled in nm
. finished with things which almost escape hij
0 l.r own notice and which cannot be separately
distinguished by others. All the influence!
?"r which surround him with presence as subtlt
t0 as the atmosphere, in babyhood, in youth
hood, in manhood, are ministering to th<
j*e development of the tninii. as common air ami
^be food and exercise are to that of the body. A1
Js?? the conduct of life, at home,in school, in th<
chosen avocation, with a power as constan
, 0 as that of light on growing plants and for
esis, 1." Klvl[i)? prvpuruuu uuu uiiucwiiviu ?
j1? the spiritual structure. All the aims am
air" endeavors and nigged encounters and try
re" iug discipline to which we are summoned
erL' lifting us to the sublimities of dutv or hum
0j bling us to the place of penitence, are givof
ing strength and force to the qualities of the
gjg soul, as athletes attain vigor and skill by
the prolonged and patient training.?Burdett
WQ Hart, I). D., in ''Always Upward."
tru
be GIFTS FROM 001>.
q nf
I have seen a little plant beneath au oak
J-r tree sheltered from the storm and wind and
J-, rain, and it felt pleased and happy to be so
[i," screened; but 1 have seen the woodman
j' come with his axe and fell the oak, and the
little plant has trembled with fear because
. its protection was removed. "Alas! for
T?- me," it said, "the hot sun will scorch me,
In_ the driving rain will drown me, and the
jjjs fierce wind will tear me up by the roots."
Eut, instead of these dreadful resists, the
ras shelter being removed, the plant ha?
nt breathed freer air, drunk more of the dews
lon' of heaven, received more of the light of the
eun, and it has sprung up and borne flowers
tjje which else had never bloomed, and seeds
ht- that never else had sown themselves in the
eil_ soil. Bo glad when God thus visits thee,
Ian waen He lanes away wiwro iHciauiMivniin
er. but dwartlng comforts, to make thee have a
clear way between thee and heaven, so that
heavenly gifts might come more plentifully
f, to thee.?Rev. C. H. Spurgeou.
knI' Oh, the joy of enjoying, with the reflection
that God and all beings approve andpartakti
urn of our joy!?W. E. Ohanniug.
at Every now and then a man's mind is
50C stretched by a new idea or sensation, and
anj nevor shrinks back to its former dimenond
sions.?Oliver Wendell Holmes.
th? We're only working by im-hea, any of us ;
like ttte camel's-hair embroiderers in China
Pl,i But it gets put together; and it is beautiful.
luff and large, a?d whole somewhere.?A. I). T,
.. Whitnev.
th<
woi
hi? Thti sight of the fa -e of Jesus is. I think,
renl what Is meant by his glorious apjx'aring.bul
hi? it will come as a consequence of his Spirit
)HS in us, not as a cau^e of that Spirit in us,
osi- 1 he pure in heart will see God. The seeing
the of him will bo the sign that we are like him,
for only by being like him can we see hitu
like as he is.? George MacDouald.
tree
t ol
ien: Never too poor, ton ugiy. too dull,too sick,
.... t.i 11..^ ?n,.
LIT.-* inn w w
t/lM Kate (illllll'tt Wi'lis.
j ; ig -
tuck of Snow Caiinen Despair,
ilj. Maine folk (ire almost In despair because
,ur_ of the continued lack of snow. Such a cona0a
dition of ulTairs has uot been known in very
the many years. There are 50,000,000 foet of
logs in the Penobscot lumbering district
which cannot be moved because of the absence
of snow, and fully as much more in
or other districts, as well aa 50,000 cords of
.);ll hemlock bark tor tanning, and all the lumj)e
ber and milling industries are suffering saiga
verely. The unique experience of putting
pes wheels on sleds has been tried in some dis10f
tricts. Every previous winter when ioe lias
\ at been cut it has oeen hauled to the houses on
sleds. This year there is no snow, and the
r j3 ioe has been cut and wheeled away. The
vu3 farmers say uow that the absence of the
warm blanket of snow means short cro pa
? uext year.
. TEMPERANCE.
' ^ LITTLE 8PIDEB.
Ueware of a little spider,
d Whose web for th) young Is spunj
r He is known by the name of Cider,
it And with care his work is done.
I- He tempts with apple juices,
a And of course appears so sweet,
You scarce susoect the uses
01 a liquid so complete,
v This juice-of-the-apple spider,
Will politely introduce
e To a web that is spread much wider,
a xur nmore aisast rous use.
[. He will beg to make you acquainted.
,, With the Bpiders, Wine and Beer,
v 'Till with breath and morals tainted
{ You enter a gateway near.
j 'Tis known as moderate drinking,
And Its courses downward tend,
As proved by the thousands sinking
3 Down to & drunkard's end.
e ?T. R. Thompson, in Youth's Temperance
Banner.
y
the ixzrnciEMc* or alcohol.
s Years ago, when dram drinking was a
1 common practice among the clergy, a minIstor
of the Ohurch of England called at an
- inn, which according to the sign displayed
- was known as tha "Green Horse."
He left the manuscript for his next Suni
day's sermon in the carriage while "lmbib
Ing" at the bar. Some michievous lads tak
lng advantage of the parson's absence, took
> the liberty of examining the Important dock
ument.
The next Sabbath as the divine was readi
ing his text, he came upon a word which
3 proved on occasion of stumbling. "The
1 righteous," he read, ''shall flourish like the
s Green?Horse?Horse why. 'tis Horse,"
i was his astonished exclamation, while the
audience was literally convulsed with laughter.
The writer is not informed as to whether
. or not this episode cured th.e good man of
L the habit of taking his daily dram, thuscausj
ing the','Green Horse to "flourish" less, but
j we hope so.
Until late years alcohol was supposed to
be a necessary ingredient in medicine, but
t science has proved the utter fallacy of this
1 i- TT.i ill- J- -
? argument, nui uiiik i3? in mioianiiiuiaui
. than alcohol, and the,Temperance Hospital,
j where no liquor of any kind id used, has a
r smaller death rate than any other known.
g If before people formed the habit of using
. intoxltants. they knew of what such stuff is
composed, a3 demonstrated by science, they
f would certainly shrink from the vile decoct
tiona with inexpressible loathing. It is ass
serted that there is mor? nourishment in one
s loaf of bread than in a whole barrel of beer.
B A gentleman told me that his nephew, a
noble young man. died of delirium tremens,
j caused by brandy, given with the hope of
' tiding him over" an attack of typhoid
~ fever.?Mildred Merle, in Ram's Horn.
i
3 WHAT HE LOST.
s A Western secular paper, the Chase CIt?
I Progress, gives the following as an almost
? verbatim report of an address made at a
n temperance gathering out its way:
a "1 have been thinking sinoe I came into
- the meeting to-night," said the speaker of
r the occasion, "about the losses I've met with
, since I signed the total abstinence pledge. I
r tell you there isn't a man in the society who
- has lost more by stopping drink than I have.
Walt a bit till I tell you what I mean. There
was a nico job of work to be done in the shop
to-day, and the boss oalled for me.
, " '(Jive it to Law,' said he. 'He's the best
hand in the shop.'
i "Well, I toli my wife at supper time, and
she said:
"'Why, Laurie, he used to call you the
worst. You've lost your bad name? haven't
you?'
' 'Tnat's a fact, wife,' said I. 'And it
ain't all I have lost in the last sixteen
months, either. I had poverty and wretchedness,
and I lost them. I had un old ragged
coat and a shockin' bad hat, and some
waterproof boots that let the wet out a the
toes as fast as they took it in at the heel.
I've lost them. I had a red face, a trembling
hand, and a pair of shaky legs that gave me
an awkward tumble now and then. I had n
habit of cursing and swearing; and I've got
rid of that. I had an aching head sometimes,
and a heavy heart, and, worst than
-11 o rtiilUv ThftnL* ftrtH
Ull IUC iuai) O 5UIIIJ ?,vuuuiwU?%i MV?.,
: I've lost them all!'
? "Then I told my wife whftt she had lost.
" " 'You've had an old ragged gown, Marv,'
: said I. 'And you had trouble and sorrow
' and a poor, wretched home, and plenty ol
? heartacnos, for you had a miserable drunk?
ard for a husband. Mary, thank the Lord
1 for all you and I have lost siuce I signed the
? temperance pledge!'"
HOW ALCOHOL WABMS.
The Temperance Cause relates an anecdote
3 about the oft repeated argument of the
1 warming effects of alcohol, as follows:
j "But, doctor, I must have some kind of a
i stimulant," cried the invalid earnestly. "I
. am cold, and it warms me."
1 "Precisely," came the doctor's crusty ani
swer. "Bee here; this stick is cold," taking
f up a stick of wood from the box beside the
3 hearth and tossing it into the flre. "Now it
i is warm, but is the stick benefited?"
- ' The sick man watched the wood first send
} out little puffs of smoke and then burst into
1 flame, and replied: "Of course not; it is
1 burning itself.
5 "And so are you when you warm yourself
t with alcohol; you are literally burning up
. the delicate tissues of your stomach and
> brain."
I Oh, yes, alcohol will warm you up, but
- who finds the fudl? When you take food,
, that is fuel, and as it burns out you keep
- warm. But when you take alcohol to warm
vou. vou are like a man who sets his house
on Are and warms his Angers by it as it
, burns.
' A TEEKANENT DAKOEIi."
The scientists of France have been investigating
the rapid incroase of alcoholism in
that land, the historic homo of wine. As u
; result, the French Academy of Medioine, one
I of the most illustrious scientific bodies in
> the world, his adopted a series of resolui
t'.ons. not only declaring Chat the drink evil
has become a "permanont danger," attacki
ing "the very life and force of the country,"
but laying stress on the fact that even the
purest alcohol is "always and fundameni
tally a poison."
I ''MODERATE" DRINKING.
1 Moderate drinking for a long period ha3,
1 according to the testimony of noted scion1
tlsts, the same delertoious effect upon the
1 human system as intemperance during a
! shorter lime. Thus oven moderate tippling
1 (under conditions that rarely exist at the
present day) becomes an evil, yet how dan'
gerous it Is and how much better it is to abstain
tota'ly.
HEAR THE GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA.
Governor L. C. Hughes, of Arizona- in his
annual report to the Secretary of the interior,
says that the cost of the liquor traffic to
the Territory is 30 great that total abstinence
is a necessity, and he prays Conerress for such
a prohibitory law. Governor Hugkes says:
"During the last thirty years there has not
been a single Apache Indian outbreak in
Arizona which was not the direct result of
intoxicating drinks."
A STARTLWO DISCLOSURE.
t? milont cov.no ?haf ihn alns ot
XUCIIO lO au (kUOIUUk OMJ?ug l u>?% ?MV
the father are visited upou the children; of
course, la the way of natural law only.
Science lends it3 support to this declaration
; and presents many sad facts in corrobratlou
' of it. Thus Dr. Paul Gamier, of Paris, who
' has been making a special study of the chil;
dren of habitual drunkards, comes to this
' conclusion: "There is a (law in the very nature
of these youns wretches that the psyeho'
logist sees clearly and notes with apprehension?the
absence of affectionate emotion;
and when tboy do not become lunatics, ho
says, they show "insensibility and pitiless"
* * rxf
I1BSS. nori) IS il lElll|)niiiiiti; HSJ3UU <1 atMit
iiug power.?Workman's Messenger.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Twflnty-one temperauce associations have
been formed in India during the past win
ter, with au enrollment of 2000 now members.
Tho Chicago Inter-Ocean asserts that
whisky caused the greater number of the 118
homicides that took place in its city during
tho past year.
The American Steamship Line has it as au
invariable rule that no captain or other officer,
sailor or other employe, shall use intoxicating
liquor as a drink.
The reason 3omo men can't make Doth enda
meet Is because they are too busily engaged
making one end drink, is the way one
i facetious advocate of the cause states It.
' i
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I AGRICULTURAL !
i
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE '
TO FARM AND GARDEN. <
(
t
THE EFFECTS OF CARP.OTS ON THE MTT.g.
If the milk lessens in yield when
roots are fed, it is not the fault of the
roots, but of something else. Carrots {
are especially good food, given in (
moderate quantity?one peck a day, t
for instance. This thould help the ,
milk, rather than dimmish it. Mangels ]
are next to carrots for feeding to (
cows. Parsnips are the hest nf nil ,
roots for milking cows.?American <
Farmer. (
]
the lettuce bed. '
I don't have a bed now, writes Ida 1
Bays. I how lettuce in a manner that 1
I like mach better. In earliest gnr- 1
dening I mix lettnce with other seeds, 1
especially with onion, beet and aim- <
ilar slow-germinating varieties. Tho i
lettnce oomes np soon and makes it i
easy to keep the row clear of weeds i
until the other seeds are up. The let- J
tuoe then is pulled as space is needod. (
Lettuce and radishes, too, are sown s
together the summer through, mak- 1
ing a succession of both, and hav- <
ing thorn ori&p and tender. Boot t
crops occupy eo little space at /first f
that lettuce does not interfere at all, ?
and the pulling is a benefit, loosening
the earth about them. I often mix 1
other seeds, putting cabbage as I want <
them to stand, with early lettuce or <
radishes,' and tomato seed with later i
crops that are to be pulled up. Thus '
I economize space, time and labor.?
American Agriculturist.
diseases of poultry.
If fowls are kept clean and well sheltered
from wind and wet, and not
uvciicu nuu uurc ? uuu ui
both soft and greeu food, and a never
failing snjiply of clean water, they will
usually remain free from disease, unless
infected by strangers. When disease
does occur among, fowls it may
usually bo ascribod to our variable
climate, to dampness and cold, to injudicious
feeding and to an ill ventilated
roosting house. We would therefore
recommend, eays an authority, as
a cure in chief for all the ills to which !
poultry is subject the practice of the
old saw, ' 'an ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure." And a gcod '
general rule for the cure of sickness is ,
that it be killed without delay, for
unless the bird or birds be valuable |
ones, it will never pay to attempt a '
cure, and rarely en if they are. A dis- ,
eased fowl, as will be the result of ,
general obscrvatiou, is never kindly ,
treated by its healthy companions, .
and, as most of the diseases to which
they aro liable are highly contagious, ]
if not killed and thus summarily dis- ,
posed of, it should be at once removed 1
from tho flock aud confined by itself (
for treatment.?Farmer's Voice.
EXPERIENCE WITH BOUP. (
We are having it right now?ex- i
perience with the roup, eays H. B. i
Greer, of Nashville, Tenn. We have i
just come in from treating four hens
with the "swell eye" roup, the kind '
of roup that makes their oyes water, <
swell up until tightly closed, and then <
fester, or fill with a poisonous canker, i
that poisons the whole system and 1
causes the afflicted bird to waste and I
.1 4 ? ^
UWiUUiU tk YfttY IU iiUlUlU^ UUD DUUVO| J
skin and featherr. I
The four hens we speak of all came <
from the same yard, where abont six |
weeks ago wo noticed one hen afflicted <
with the disease, took her out, treated <
her and cured her. No more were af- <
fected by it for a month, when a rainy
spell, followed by cold wind and
snow, caused it to break oat again,
and worse than before. ,
Bat, we do not fear it, for we have
a dry ronp ouro, that will cure it every .
time, when applied at the onset of the
disease. It is made up in the form of
a powder, and applied by means of a 1
little blower that costs ten or fifteen
cents at tho drug store. The remedy
consists of powdered alum,sulphur and ]
magnesia, of equal parts, all thorough- 1
ly mixed together, and applied directly
to the eyes, nostrils and month
of the sick fowls. It is the best rem- i
edy we ever tried.
Mdst roup onres are solutions tnat wet
the bend when applied obd cause additional
cold and inflammation in that
way. Wheroas the powder we name is
healing and soothing from the start.
The sulphur eradicates the poison, the
slum draws and heals and the magnesia
soothes and modifies the effects of
the othor two ingredients. This, beyond
n doubt, is the best handy, eim- 1
pie and home-made remedy for roup
that there is. Anyone can obtain it 1
at the local drug store."?Farm, Field 1
and Fireside.
THE FARMER'S HOME.
There is much about some farm 1
homes which might be improved. The ;
feeling $at appearances count for
little on the farm is wrong. Farmers'
kitchens and homes ure as susoeptible ;
to improvement as anything else on 1
the farm. The question which needs '
attention is what is best to cook, and i
not what is easiest and most quickly
prepared. Frying pans aro tho curse ]
of the American Nation. Things are ]
fried and fried until there is appar- I
ently no relief. Methods in cooking I
and arrangements in cooking should 1
be observed. Farmers are busy, but
they do not fail to live tho best lives j
in the best possible manner. Becunse ,
a girl lives in the couutry is not a rea- <
son whv she fchould wear dowdy cloth- j
* T--i -?? AH ? /.** mnr norrlnntc I
, IUg. UU319U lUUjJ un u lilluiwt ,
I to observe the courteaioc of life, so
long will that life fail to rcach a high .
! standard. !
The home maker must have a wide r |
knowledge t'otn any other person on ,
the farm. She m?uc ho a physician,
burgeon end trained nurse. Slis must
be a chemist nnd kuo\? bo?/ to com- '
bine foods; an artist iO make n, pie**
* ? I ? . ? nnr< ^
ttire 01 ner xnmn, .> {-wuvtv..-.- ....
euado lier busbaudasd train her sous; 1
a musician to runko and ?\eoutc pious ?
of harmony. Domestic tcicuco has 1
gained ground Jor twenty years. *
Every furrner should giv.: fbis? irons '^t* 1
toutiou. His dau'-'htc in quite likely 1
, to have little opportunity to secure
education in tlmt line. The much- i
needed chan^o in farm life cannot be i
brought about by au overburdened s
mother. The hope which will lend the i
farmers into higher unci better lives is :
I -the possibilities which aro opeu to
I thc'i :on.'. di'.uahters. They can 1
? ;\, -i" - . "V '
I
- ? _ ^
ye educated. Careful plaW kit
laughters will afford them the opportunity
of becoming queens as hotae*.
wireB daring the next generation, and'
;hen will the fntore hope of the farmer
be realized.?New England Homeitead,
"3TAQQEKS." . . j ;
Daring the late summer and fall, is .
i section of Eastern North Carolina,
m epidemic among horses has anna*
illy occurred, amounting to a loss each
pear of perhaps ten per cent.. The:
natter appearing of so much-import-'
mce. the consulting veterinarian of!
the Experiment Station (Dr. P. P.
Williamson) was sent to make a personal
examination. The following
das been gleaned from hi* report:' '
The symptoms as given are sudden in
their development. Sore throat,
water coming through nose on at;empting
to drink, rapid breathing,
068 of appetite and one of three
hings?the animal either walks around
n a circle to one side over any objeoft
n the way without apparently seeing
t ("blind staggers"), or remains per-^
'eotly still, with eyes partially or
completely closed, without-taking tbb.
wgntest interest in surroundings un-ess
aroased ("sleepy staggers"), or
lashes about furiously without regard
;o self, people, or things, ("mad stagrers").
An obstinate constipation
tccompanie3 each case.
The land lies very low in this diairict,
there being many swamps and
litchos through the farms, and on
;ach side of the road the ditches are
filled with reddish brown stagnant
water. The vegetation is very rank,
the dews are very heavy, and do not
dry off before noon the next day?
The horses have very little protection,
as a rule. On some farms there are
no barns at all for housing stock. The
unimals are simply turned in a rough
shed to eat, then turned out again,
exposed to wind, rain and sun. Wherever
they aro stabled it is claimed
thoy are never affected, as shown by
the experience of one farmer who has
not lost a single oase in several years.
Another, who had not lost a horse in
thirteen years, let his run to paature
ninrhfc and dav this vear and lost them.
Another had four pasturing; three of
these he pat np at night, leaving one
out at all times, except at feed'.?. .
The one left oat died, the other three are
in good condition. Many other cases
might be noted, bnt this is enoogh to
show that where the animals are pro*
tected from the weather (the heavy
dews, rain and wind storms, for this '
occurs always after a rainy, hot sea- .
son) they are free frotn any sickness,
rwo animals dying from the disease
were found by autopsy to have died
with pneumonia (complicated with
pleurisy in the first case). The stag*
jering gait, the sleepy, half-unconsciousness,
the madness are caused by
the tozine taken into the blood from
the diseased lang tissue, or from want
of reoxygenation of tb? blood, the
brain is not properly fed, animals being
affected according to individual
disposition. The suggestion would
be to provide better stables and take'
more care of the horses. Keep ani " lo
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bime. Animals already affected should;
be given a bolus or a drench of Barba;loes
aloes one ounoe, calomel one
dram. If this remains inactive sixteen
hours, follow with one quart raw,
linseed oil. Every three hours should (
be given four ounces acetate of ammonia,
two drams nitrate of potash, 1
two ounces sweet spirits of niter in
Jrench, Food should be restricted to
;ruel, bran mash, or something easily
iigested. About three or fonr buckets
af drinking water should be given a
Jay.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Warm barns save feed. This ad*
rice is now in season.
Rennet acts more slowly on pasteurized
milk than on fresh milk.
Pulverization of the soil is one of
bhe open 6ecrets of succefsfal farming.
If you have any late chicks that are
peeping out a sad existence, either kill
them or furnish them stockings and *
warm bed. ,
If your nearest town imports pro
duce from a distance, why not supply
that market yourself? There'3 money
in this hint.
Break a piece of cold butter, and if
the grain is perfect the broken parts
will resemble the broken parts of cast
iron or steal.
Never disturb the bees during the
winter unless absolutely necessary.
Quiet is one of the essentials of successful
wintering.
Even if you arc cure you can guess
at the temperature to within half a
degree, always use a thermoireter in
the cream before churning.
One way of making a nice entrance
to the hives for the winter is to spread
sawdust over a considerable surface in
front of the hives and fill up level to
the entrance.
Frosty nights call for a little meal
in the manger and a lot of straw on
the floor. If the meal be sprinkled
an cut hay, it will prevent me cuw#
from eating it too rapidly.
The American breeds?Plymouth
Rocks, Wyandcttco aud ?/avas?still
bead the list as the general purpose
fowls, although thef? are other varieties
which are heavier, but do lay m
well.
The red raspberry is a good honey
plant, the flowers lasting three or four
ireekB, and furnishing a honey that is
3ioellent in quality, while the berriea
prove better and more abundant if
ueea visit thorn frequently.
Snow or ice is not an egg produce,
jo do not labor under the impression
;hat your hens are going to give you
:mskets full of eggs if the material
;urni3hed them is cold corn moistened
vitli what snow or ice they can.
pick up.
For trimming grape vines in the
vinter, they may bo cut rapidly and
veil with no splitting, by using a large
md very sharp knife in quick blows,
vitfcout handling the vines at all. The
nnrtions will fall as neatlv aa
f cut ori' more slowly by the bent
^running .shears.
If farmers do nothing more than
jot rid oi thoir scrub sheep it will be
i blossins to them. There aro more
scrubs amousf sheep thau of any other
nuinials. When farmers are forced to
resort to the improved breeds they
will at somo day look baok upon low
irices aj blosfiuge.